Do they know where the light switch is?

Project-9699,
You can try contacting the NMUSAF several other museums have tried, but as I understand it the NMUSAF will now only loan items to national museums with any non national museum being allowed to continue the loans they already have. No new non national museums will be loaned items (I’m sure Twin Otter will correct me if I am wrong).

Sadsack With regards to the cockpit of the F100 it has a broken canopy & other damage from the accident. The final decision as to whether any parts of the F100 or Mystere can be salvaged for future use rests solely with the owners of the aircraft the NMUSAF not the Lashenden Air Warfare Museum who would be quite happy to strip both aircraft of anything useful to the wider preservation movment

We are finally getting somewhere with the NMUSAF all they have to do is check their records to see if it still has any explosive devices fitted then it can be scrapped along with the Mystere according to the museums director (neither aircraft were acquired by the Lashenden Air Warfare Museum both aircraft having been acquired by third parties). The F100 & the Mystere have not been on loan to the museum since March 2007. Below is the latest Email from the NMUSAF

Dear Mr Matthews,

Thank you for sending me your letter of 11 Feb 2015, with the detailed background information on the F-100F and the Mystere IV at your museum, and for bringing this to my attention.

You are correct in that it has taken far too long to resolve this issue.

We thought we had two fundamental matters to resolve before authorizing you to proceed with scrapping the aircraft. The first matter is whether either aircraft has any components that include radioactive material. It turns out that we have paperwork indicating that both aircraft are free of radioactive material. The second matter is the question of whether either aircraft has any remaining explosive components that for example might have been part of the ejection system or the weapon release system. We have looked over the past couple days and as of this moment we do not have evidence of whether these aircraft were previously checked for explosive components.

We will keep you up to date on what we find, if anything else, on the status of explosive components in these two aircraft.

Am sorry this has taken so very long.

One way or another we will get this remaining issue corrected so that you are able to move forward and scrap the two jets.

I have copied on this email our Chief of Collections, Ms Krista Strider; our Chief of Restoration, Mr Roger Deere; and our Chief of Management Support, Ms Katherine Cox.

Jack Hudson
Lt Gen, USAF (Ret)
NMUSAF Director

We are not holding our breath just hoping!

The Lashenden Air Warfare Museum has the remains of a Perseus from Botha L6262 that crashed on 24th February 1941

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